Emma Mae (1976)

Jerri Hayes: Emma Mae

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• Emma Mae : Look at him! A man who goes on about gang wars and can't even hold his own against a woman!

• Emma Mae : [to the people at the bank they're robbing]  Ladies and gentleman, thanks for your cooperation.

• Emma Mae : Big Daddy, I wish you would've changed your mind and gone back home. Well, I guess it's about that time.

  [loads shotgun] 

  'Big Daddy' Johnson : Girl, where did you learn to handle a shotgun like that?

  Emma Mae : My granddaddy.

• Jesse Amos : [on the dance floor]  Chay told me today that you were from down South. I always thought - that the grind, was one of them universal things. You know what I mean?

  Emma Mae : It is. But, we usually do it layin' down.

• Emma Mae : I think he's kinda cute.

  Dara Stansell : Cute? Girl, you got to be jivin'. That nigga is a loser if ever I saw one. Just look at him with his old antique ass still gang warring.

• Emma Mae : They gots the battle but the war goes on!

• Emma Mae : [after beating the hell out of another woman]  Sorry for the rude interruption.

• Melik Stansell : Dara and Ulika are always teasin' me. Callin' me nubby. But, I want you to call them nubby.

  Emma Mae : Nubby? Now why do they say that?

  Melik Stansell : Because they say mine aren't as big as their nipples. I hate them.

  Emma Mae : Melik, what is all this about size? Now, listen to your big cuz. Now, my mother had practically *nothin'* up here. I mean nothin'! She was almost flat as a pancake. And you know what? One day I heard her ask my daddy if he cared.

  Melik Stansell : She did? And what did your daddy say?

  Emma Mae : Now, that's the good part. My daddy looked at her and he said, "Anything over a mouthful is wasted anyway."

  Melik Stansell : And then what did your mother say?

  Emma Mae : She didn't say nothin'. My daddy just looked at her and laughed and said, "Your lucky I don't have a big mouth."

• Melik Stansell : Oo, Emma! You got some *big* ones.

  Emma Mae : Girl, I thought you were sleepin'. You nearly scared me to death.

  Melik Stansell : Gosh, Emma, your's are as big as Dara and Ulika put together. Even bigger than Mama's.

• Emma Mae : Back home, we got one rule: family got to stick together.

  Jesse Amos : Yeah. I can dig on that too, baby. I wanna be family.

• Emma Mae : I don't understand. They always talkin' about how we young people never try to do nothin' but used dope and kill each other up in the street. Then, when we try to do somethin' the way they say its supposed to be done, they mess with us and try to shut us down. Mr. Davies, what is it all about?

  Mr. Davies : I'm going to tell you something, Emma. I respect you. And believe me, I feel sorry for you. You see, those people up there are looking down here and they see one little black country girl organizing a bunch of kids that society, with all their money and their brains, said there was no saving. You scare them. You scare them; because, you embarrass them. Add to that the fact that you're trying to get two cop beaters off and - that's where we are now.

• Emma Mae : It's only out of our league if we *think* its out of our league.

• James : You got the rest of the pieces in the bag, Emma.

  Emma Mae : Well, let's get it on.

• Chay : Where did you learn to handle yourself like that, girl?

  Emma Mae : Los Angeles ain't the only place with fools. We have to learn how to fight down South too.

  Ulika Stansell : Well, you sure learned well. For a minute there, I thought you had gone crazy.

  Jerimi : Funny, I thought I had gone crazy.

  Chay : That's what you got to do some times with a crazy nigger, you know. You got to go crazy your Goddamn self.